To be classified as a hate crime, the offense must be against a member of certain defined protected class. Trump supporters are NOT members of a protected class because of their delusion.
Your hate goaded someone into committing a crime? Probably.
Dung is known to be very combustible.
No hate crime, just neighborhood improvement.
âWeâve created hate crime laws to protect specific individuals. If youâre gay or Jewish or religious or transgender, you have a hate crime law to protect you,â Pirozzolo told the Voice. "The average person, who has a fire on his lawn, thatâs not a hate crime?
Uh. No⌠Unless the criminal mischiefer was motivated to do this by Trumpâs race. And many people say Trumpâs cruel offensive remarks provide numerous alternative motivations to do a replica of him harm separate and apart from his race.
Just thinking outloudâŚ
âŚis it a crime when you set your own âstatueâ on fire?
Not a hate crimeâŚan act of love. Love of America.
âWeâve created hate crime laws to protect specific individuals. If youâre gay or Jewish or religious or transgender, you have a hate crime law to protect you,â Pirozzolo told the Voice.
Thereâs a reason for thatâŚ
"The average person, who has a fire on his lawn, thatâs not a hate crime?
not under NY state statute. However arson and trespassing should suffice for nowâŚ
We shouldnât be making laws to protect a specific class of people. We should be protecting every class of people."
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Optician Sam Pirozzolo? None so blind as those who fit glasses.
Anyhow, he sounds like one of them there Eyetalian immigrants, probably mobbed up.
Whatâs he doing in Drumpfâs Murika?
Like the burning of the Reichstag? The EPAâs Air Quality division might be perturbed. Actually, no might about it.
âWeâve created hate crime laws to protect specific individuals. If youâre gay or Jewish or religious or transgender, you have a hate crime law to protect you,â
Is Trump is a religion now?
I have to repress the desire to do this every time I drive past a Drumpf sign on a lawn, which fortunately is infrequent.
A Staten Island man believes his support for Donald Trump has rendered him the victim of a hate crime.
If the shoe fits.........
This guy would let Jared Fogle babysit his kids.I donât for a minute condone harassment or vandalism, or suppression of political speech even when I disagree. That saidâŚ
Itâs not like that âsculptureâ wouldnât have offended a large portion of the American public; still, who who would benefit from this sort of crime?
Pirozzolo told the Washington Post that he received accolades
Oh. OK. And this:
a Monday phone call from the Republican nominee
Hmmm.
But wait, thereâs more:
The proud conservative ⌠has commissioned Staten Island artist Scott LoBaidoâŚto create a new, taller âTâ for his lawn.
Well, there you go.
Iâll bet he doesnât even have to pay for the new one.
I canât believe that any person paying good money to have large commemorative sculptures on his lawn doesnât have security cameras to go along with them (not to mention the need for general protection from any thuggish behavior). Too bad his are broken.
Iâm not one to condone criminal behavior (at least not anymore) but the fact that this man said what happened to him is equivalent to having a cross burned on his lawn eliminates any sympathy I may have otherwise felt for him. From one âPro-Hillary Thugâ to another, Iâd like to buy that arsonist a beer (unless itâs Pirozzolo who did this to himself to try to make himself into a victim). Oh, and by they way Mr. Pirozzolo, âidiotâ is not a protected class in this country.
Pope Drumpf of the Church of the Everlasting Hateful Dumb would agree.
Hate crime? Nope. _____ Two words: Public Service.
Here is a picture of the ânew, bigger Tâ that all the Trump supporters are just going wild about.
Disability, perhaps? We shouldnât attack the mentally ill. 
[tap tap] âIs this thing on?.. (Ahem)âŚMr Pirozzolo: we donât HATE you. We think youâre STUPID. And a whiner.â